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Update: Dark TricksI have read the comments and made some changes to Dark Tricks. Changes listed below, Enjoy. Dark Tricks. 1 Less pumpkins than first release. 2 Chan…
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5 Some minor graphic changes.
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All New Mega Speccy Mix-Up Quiz!I was a bit bored so I thought I'd do another one of these quizzes. In the piccy below there are [B]20 speccy games graphic fragments[/B] from in-ga…
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CreativityGoing on from the absurd copyright thread.... I have seen people on websites claim that creativity can be taught. I dispute that. I can (and have)…
... forum that is a natural graphic designer - yet that person has ... -
HACK PACK - BALACHOR'S REVENGE56017,x x=gold 52139,201 No baddies 56045,x x=energy blocks
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Slow BrowsersI'm getting fed up with web browsers. I've been jumping from Firefox, to Chrome, then back to Firefox and even to Internet Explorer but still am expe…
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New Game - When Alex Didn't Do ItHello everyone, and a Happy New Year for 2015. After 6 months of toil, I've finished my graphic adventure, When Alex Didn't Do It, which consists of…
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ZX-Modules updatesDear readers, depending on a common change on the file list (establishing the meta block feature), I've updated many of my ZX-Modules applications. …
... can explode meta blocks to get all sub-blocks listed. This behaviour ... tab sheet the sub-blocks of meta blocks are listed.
[*] ... explodes it into its sub-blocks. Double-clicking somewhere on ... can explode meta blocks to get all sub-blocks listed. This ... -
Zero 0.7 / Zero 0.6.5 releasedAfter months of grueling work, I?m proud to announce the Vanilla version of Zero, which is a regular Windows version of the emulator. I?ve tried to m…
... Flash Load for standard tape blocks.
* The emulator is not ... when trying to load standard blocks.
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The best Tetris game on the Speccy?The recent [B]Tetris Ultimate[/B] debacle on the PS4 and XBox One* made me wonder what was the best version of Tetris on the Spectrum. I'm not famil…
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New game "Ice Slider Z" by egotripAnyway, Ice Slider Z is a collect-em-up in which you attempt to collect 12 jewels on each screen. The trick is once you start moving, only brick wall…
... . You will bounce off rubber blocks. There are also fires and ... -
Spectaculator 8 No Longer FunctioningI have a fully registered copy of Spectaculator 8 and am running it on Windows 8.1 (fully updated). I fear that an update may have screwed with how…
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Newbie with a faultHi all just joined after digging my spectrum out of the loft after 30 years, it was put up there because it had a common fault I remember from back i…
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Find the most 8 Bit Sweater (Jumpers)I got side tracked today looking at vintage clothing from the 80s. Particularly jumper s (no not the Jeordie Jumpaz). 80's jumpers tended to be brig…
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Breakout with variable shaped bricksHow about Breakout but instead of rectangular blocks, more stone like ones of varying shapes? Not something I'll be working on but might be more inte…
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Help for beginner with z80Hi chaps, I'm reasonably new with z80, but had a fair amount of experience with 68000, so decided to give a few things a go. One little thing I'm t…
... message using the 8x8 attribute blocks.
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More SpecBAS funHere's a neat little effect I lifted from a thread about displaylists and stuff from an Amiga forum - although SpecBAS has no hardware to assist, it …
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10 GRAPHIC NEW circles,320,256: WINDOW ... GRAPHIC circles
20 CLS 8: ... y
40 WINDOW 0: GRAPHIC ERASE circles
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SpecBAS Screen wipeAn old effect, but a good one - you'll need this file: [url]https://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/moon.png[/url] to run this program. [code] 10 REM…
... REM Screen Wipe
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Two QL software bundles on Ebay plus Speccy stuffI put two QL software bundles on Ebay.<br><br>Item# 131507376592:<br><img src="http://up.picr.de/21885626us.jpg"><br>- The lost kingdom of Zkul<br>- …
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- Cosmos
- Graphic Toolkit
- Archiver
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Grammar-based data compressionI'm working on a game for the 48k Spectrum but want a way to compress a lot of screens into a small space, so I'm looking into data compression. Each…
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Scrolling colourful graphicsHi,<br>I'm experimenting with scrolling colourful graphics. I'm keeping 8 pixel empty gap between colourful blocks to avoid colour clash.<br><br>But …
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Back into the scene and having problems !Hi Guys,<br><br>After a few years away from the retro scene, I'm back with an Atari 800XL, A C64 and - best of all arrived today, a lovely little 48K…
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Workaround for Infoseek APIHi there<br>A couple of years ago, I wrote a little software called PlayTZX and published it on Google Play Store.<br>This application strongly relie…
... string to know where the blocks are.
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Trial version of CharAde graphics engine for Sinclair BASICA trial version of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">CharAde</span> graphics engine for Sinclair BASIC is now available. It consists of a block of …
... of the example graphics and blocks included in this release. Please ... -
Falling Blocks - new game from z80 assembly beginner<p>I started learning z80 assembly earlier this year, mostly from reading Jonathan Cauldwell's "How to write ZX Spectrum Games" and from reading arti…
I started learning z80 assembly earlier this year, mostly from reading Jonathan Cauldwell's "How to write ZX Spectrum Games" and from reading articles here in the development section of WOS - so thanks a lot for that!
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Spellbound - A very classic Mastertronic ZX Spectrum review<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"><img src="http://i61.tinypic.com/2wfjl79.png"></span><div style="fon…
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ZX-Assembler version 0.8 (beta) releasedDear readers, yesterday I've published ZX-Assembler in its first version 0.8. It offers you some interesting features, even if I know there are …
New tool: tap2turboI've been experimenting with turbo loaders, mainly following the lead of Alessandro Grussu, and using Tapir for setting up the turbo blocks is very i…
... for setting up the turbo blocks is very inconvenient for me ... (from FUSE emulator) to change blocks in a tape into a ... timings for Biturbo 1 in blocks 4 and 5 of an ...[NEW] Retro Virtual Machine v1.0.0 for OSX released!!!!Here it is! Retro Virtual Machine v1.0.0 RELEASED!!!! Many thanks first to Patrik Rak for the PZX format and for their Z80 tests without which RVM…
... emulations supports almost all the blocks (what a nightmare!!), only missing ...Alien-B: a simple invaders in Beta BASICIn 2011 I wrote a simple invaders game in Beta BASIC 4.0+D (for Spectrum 128 with the Plus D interface), just for fun and to try some of the graphic …
... to try some of the graphic features of the language.
